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Problem statement: When delivering group works, students can invite other members to join the group in the moment of its creation. However, after created, other integrants can only join the group by s...

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Problem statement: If a student was already added to a group and you need to change their group, it can be a tedious process to find the student so they can be re-assigned to another group. All the gr...

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Problem statement: Many students prefer names other that what is listed on their official registration. Sometimes that is as simple as a preferred shortening of their name or a name that they have cho...

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Problem statement: In the Enrollments box of a user's profile there's a long list of every course they have ever been enrolled in. I am unable to sort or filter to narrow down the search, I spend a lo...

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Problem statement: Currently there is no way to filter out the results of the link validator to not include broken links that appear within unpublished content. One use case for this is if there is a ...

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Problem statement: Hello community, In the forums students post their comments and if the teacher configures it, students can like their classmates' post. A student who has been liked has no way of kn...

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Problem statement: Hello everyone, in our institution students sometimes look for the profile pictures of their classmates and unintentionally click on the link "remove avatar" and the person's profil...

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Problem statement: All pages have a white background. Proposed solution: My suggestion is to have a way to change the page background or add an image to make it more attractive to students. User rol...

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Problem statement: Push notifications are not supported for global announcements. Proposed solution: Allow push notifications for global announcements. It would be nice as an administrator to be able...

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Problem statement: When searching for courses to associate with a blueprint, the term drop down seems to be randomly organized - not alphabetical or by year/term - it seems random and makes it incredi...

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Problem statement: When I am searching for a course (for ex., to copy a page/module to another course) or for a rubric ( the find a rubric feature), I get a list of all courses that I have taught and ...

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Problem statement: Please put back the score a student received when we send a message in the gradebook. For example, I send a message to everyone who missed an exam, then I also send a message to eve...

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Problem statement: In the gradebook, it would be easier to flag students who are struggling if I could visually see it. The grades can be sorted, but if I want to keep students in alpha order, it woul...

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Problem statement: Currently, modules exist in isolation of each other. Teachers at our school typically make each week a new module. However, it is difficult for students to see their weekly modules ...

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Problem statement: In the Attendance tool in a web browser, the 'mark all as present' tool is immediately below the dropdown menu to change the current class section. When moving quickly, it is too ea...

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Problem statement: I would like to be able to see a full view of all students attendance report, including badges, as a whole class without having to click on each individual student on the attendance...

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Problem statement: I work with a lot of instructors in a lot of courses, with hundreds of unique assignments between them. It would be helpful to know from the Assignments page which of these assignme...

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Problem statement: When we're commenting on student submissions, its common for a problematic, or exemplary passage/quotation/sentence to begin near the bottom of one page and continue to the next. Ri...

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Problem statement: The platform currently does not support inline review questions. Inline review questions are important to engage learners and help them retain information. For the current New Quizz...

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Problem statement: Right now, if a teacher wants to grade a text entry item, they need to look elsewhere for the answer key. You can't put the answers in the rubric because students can see the rubric...

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